Posted on 02/17/2021 4:56:39 AM PST by DoodleBob
Legendary rocker Alice Cooper will release his new studio album, "Detroit Stories", on February 26 via earMUSIC. Named for the city that launched the original Alice Cooper group on the road to success, it follows 2019's "Breadcrumbs" EP as a modern-day homage to the toughest and craziest rock and roll scene there ever was.
Speaking about his inspiration for "Detroit Stories", Alice said (see video below): "Well, I was born in Detroit, and Detroit was the, is the hard rock capital of the United States. Los Angeles had THE DOORS, and they were kind of a sexy rock and roll sound. San Francisco had THE GRATEFUL DEAD. New York had THE YOUNG RASCALS. Detroit had THE STOOGES, the MC5, Alice Cooper, Bob Seger, Ted Nugent. We were all hard rock — guitar-driven rock and roll bands. And, for some reason, that just became the home of hard rock. And it was in the same place as Motown, which was interesting. We had, actually, two musical movements going on at the same time — Motown and hard rock — and they both got along very well together.
"So, I said, 'Let's do an album that basically celebrates Detroit, since I was born there and I owe a lot to Detroit," he continued. "But let's not just do that. Let's go in there and record there, write the album there, only use Detroit players, and make it pure Detroit.' So that was a bit of a discipline for us, because we like to use different players and everything. The only one that wasn't from Detroit was Joe Bonamassa; he was our guest in there. But everybody else on the album was Detroit rockers."
(Excerpt) Read more at blabbermouth.net ...
I thought it would be the capital of rap noise now.
Used to be Motown, when blacks could sing and had soul.
Ping
As I told everybody last night, I was reading in Rolling Stone where they said, “Detroit audiences are the greatest rock & roll audiences in the world.” I thought to myself, “Shit! I’ve known that for ten years!”
— Bob Seger, “Nutbush City Limits”, ‘Live’ Bullet
Yeah but Bob Seger hard rock?
It’s ridiculous that Ted Nugent isn’t in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Bands that OPENED for him:
Bad Company
Rush
Van Halen
AC/DC
Eddie Money
The Scorpions
Def Leppard
Cheap Trick
Montrose
Quiet Riot
All the love to Bob.
But this is about Vincent Furnier (Alice's real name). In the most recent revival of "Jesus Christ Superstar" - watched as I'd never seen it before - the audience went totally apesh!t when he came out as Pontius Pilate, doing the Wayne's World "We're Not Worthy" thing. Stole the play, of course.
Man, Detroit is seven square miles of abandoned auto factories and parts manufactures.
Meanwhile, Cincinnati is the chili capital of the woild. Just ask Ron White.
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